Those arrested include veteran radical writer Seydou Badian Kouyaté (a minister in Modibo Keïta's Independence government) and potential presidential candidate Mountaga Tall a lawyer with support among the young...
Ségou is the powerbase of the Congrès Nationale d'Initiative Démocratique (CNID) under Mountaga Tall scion of a distinguished religious dynasty and with Konaré and others a key pro-democracy activist in the twilight years of the Traoré regime...
Third place in the 1992 poll was taken by Mountaga Tall of the Congrès National d'Initiative Démocratique (CNID) a pro- democracy campaigner who took his party out of the coalition with the ruling ADEMA in 1994 ...